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Definitions for repast
rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑstrepast

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meal, repastnoun

    the food served and eaten at one time

Wiktionary

  1. repastnoun

    A meal.

  2. repastnoun

    The food eaten at a meal.

  3. repastverb

    To eat a repast.

    On Thanksgiving Day Americans repast on turkey.

  4. Etymology: repast, from the verb repaistre, from repascere.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Repastnoun

    Etymology: repas, Fr. re and pastus, Lat.

    From dance to sweet repast they turn
    Desirous; all in circles as they stood,
    Tables are set. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v.

    What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
    Of Attick taste, with wine. John Milton.

    Sleep, that is thy best repast,
    Yet of death it bears a taste,
    And both are the same thing at last. John Denham.

    The day
    Had summon’d him to due repast at noon. Dryden.

    Keep regular hours for repast and sleep. Arbuthnot.

    Go, and get me some repast;
    I care not what, so it be wholsome food. William Shakespeare.

  2. To Repastverb

    To feed; to feast.

    Etymology: repaistre, Fr. from the noun.

    To his good friends I’ll ope my arm,
    And, like the kind life-rend’ring pelican,
    Repast them with my blood. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Repast

    A repast is a meal or taking of food.

ChatGPT

  1. repast

    A repast is a meal or the food provided or consumed in a meal. It can also refer to the act of eating or dining.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Repastnoun

    the act of taking food

  2. Repastnoun

    that which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment

  3. Repast

    to supply food to; to feast; to take food

  4. Etymology: [OF. repast, F. repas, LL. repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See Pasture.]

Wikidata

  1. Repast

    The Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit is a widely used free and open-source, cross-platform, agent-based modeling and simulation toolkit. Repast has multiple implementations in several languages and built-in adaptive features, such as genetic algorithms and regression. Repast was originally developed by David Sallach, Nick Collier, Tom Howe, Michael North and others at the University of Chicago.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Repast

    rē-past′, n. a meal: the food taken: victuals: repose—(obs.) Repas′ture.—v.t. to feed.—v.i. to take food.—n. Repast′er, one who takes repast. [O. Fr.,—Low L. repastus (whence Fr. repas)—L. re-, inten. pastus, food—pascĕre, pastum, to feed.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of repast in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of repast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of repast in a Sentence

  1. Chinese:

    The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.

  2. Francis Quarles:

    Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

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